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Earlier this month I visited Timor-Leste to help brief government and civil society actors on ASEAN. I spent a few days travelling around thanks to Christine Cabasset and the UNTL and thought it might be interesting to record a few thoughts and share some images. For those who are unaware, Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) was […]

Earlier this month I participated in a seminar for government officials and civil society in Timor-Leste on the theme of ‘ASEAN Reinforcement and Regional Governance’, organised by UNTL and IRASEC with support from the EU, World Bank and French foreign ministry. The purpose of the seminar was to brief local policymakers and other ‘stakeholders’ on […]

I appeared on Monocle 24 on 3 December to discuss the Australia/ East Timor spying row, the apparent purge of Kim Jong-Un’s uncle in North Korea, and the outbreak of bird flu in Hong Kong. You can hear that here, about 41 mins in. This morning I appeared for a special extended section on the […]

Another review of my book has been published, this one by veteran Southeast Asianist Ramses Amer of Sweden’s Institute for Security and Development Policy. Writing in the Austrian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, he calls the book an interesting contribution… the book addresses a highly relevant area of research from both scholarly and policy perspectives… […]

A couple of friends have pointed out a review of my book which I’d not seen before, by history professor Christopher Gennari, inEast Asian Integration Studies. It’s a positive review with a pithy edge to it: Jones’ work is an important and significant contribution to academic literature… Jones clearly places himself against the current of […]

At long last, and after lengthy delays, my first book has now been published: Click here to find out more about the book. I gave a talk about it at the National University of Singapore in November, and one of the attendees kindly did a nice write-up of it, which you can access here.

My latest journal article, ‘Post-Colonial Statebuilding in East Timor: Bringing Social Conflict Back In‘, has now been published in Conflict, Security and Development. Abstract: One potential explanation for the persistent gap between international state-builders’ aspirations and achievements is their misguided understanding of states as institutional apparatuses abstracted and separated from society. State-society interpenetration is actually […]

Graeme has a post on Hocemo Li Nu Kafu? asking ‘Why do anti-interventionists minimise atrocities?’. I was going to write a short comment response but as usual it spiralled out of control and I thought I’d just expand it into a general defence of anti-interventionism, since I don’t think I’ve rehearsed the argument here before. […]